Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2433Location: BostonDate / Time: November 16, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
(Botanical Illustration, Medicine),Barton, William P.C., Presentation Copy,Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; or Medical Botany, Philadelphia: Matthew Carey & Son, 1817, first edition, two volumes, original boards, with forty-nine hand-colored engravings and inscribed "To Commodore Bainbridge with the respects of the author, April 4, 1822," 4to, (wear to bindings, some minor offset and spotting).
Estimate $6,000-8,000